A Week in World Photos

A woman directs bats away from a power tower in Hpa-an, Karen state, Myanmar, on March 1.

Ye Aung Thu/AFP via Getty Images

A member of the Syria Civil Defense, known as the “White Helmets,” carries a child after she was recovered from debris in the town of Maaret Musreen in the country’s northwestern Idlib province following an airstrike March 5. Russian warplanes were blamed for the strike.

AHMAD AL-ATRASH/AFP via Getty Images

A gondolier checks his phone while waiting for tourists in Venice, Italy, on March 5.

ANDREA PATTARO/AFP via Getty Images

A man walks past damaged cars in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro on March 2 following heavy rains. Downpours have swamped the area, leaving more than two dozen people dead and thousands displaced, with more rain in the forecast.

Mauro Pimentel/AFP via Getty Images

An officer of the Ivory Coast’s Water and Forests Ministry watches as bags of pangolin scales seized from poachers are burned in a suburb of Abidjan on March 3 . The pangolin, a delicacy across Southeast Asia, is the most trafficked mammal in the world. Beijing announced a total ban on the animal’s sale and consumption after the coronavirus outbreak.

ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP via Getty Images

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a briefing at the White House on the coronavirus on March 3.

Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

Afghan Taliban militants and villagers celebrate in the Alingar district of Laghman province on March 2. The Taliban said they were resuming offensive operations against Afghan security forces, ending the partial truce that preceded the signing of a deal between the insurgents and Washington.

NOORULLAH SHIRZADA/AFP via Getty Images

A Syrian woman sits in a tent with her son as others wait for food distribution in Edirne, Turkey, near the Pazarkule border crossing to Greece on March 3.

BULENT KILIC/AFP via Getty Images

U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he arrives at Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina, on March 2. Trump was holding a Keep America Great rally on the eve of Super Tuesday voting.

Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

Spanish police officers and civil guards sporting Guy Fawkes masks hold a placard reading “Traitors” during a demonstration to demand fair wages near the entrance of the parliament building in Madrid on March 3.

OSCAR DEL POZO/AFP via Getty Images

Students wash their hands as part of health measures against the coronavirus outbreak before attending class at a government-run high school in Secunderabad, India, on March 4.

NOAH SEELAM/AFP via Getty Images

Refugees and migrants wait after landing ashore the Greek island of Lesbos on March 2.

ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images

A snack vendor looks for customers along a street in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on March 2.

JEWEL SAMAD/AFP via Getty Images

Students at the National Autonomous University of Honduras clash with riot police in Tegucigalpa on March 3 during a protest demanding justice for the murder of environmental activist Berta Cáceres. The indigenous leader was killed in her home in March 2016.

ORLANDO SIERRA/AFP via Getty Images

A girl practices Vovinam, a Vietnamese martial art of self-defense, with swords and sticks at St. Maaz High School in Hyderabad, India, on March 5. The school was preparing for an upcoming International Women’s Day performance.

NOAH SEELAM/AFP via Getty Images

Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg speaks to supporters and staff in New York City on March 4 as he ends his candidacy for U.S. president.

JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images

Dozens of people, some holding placards reading “Our children don’t breathe air anymore,” protest against pollution in front of the Romanian Environment Ministry in Bucharest on March 4.

DANIEL MIHAILESCU/AFP via Getty Images

A couple in Hong Kong wear face masks on March 4 amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus.

VIVEK PRAKASH/Afp/AFP via Getty Images

Members of Syria’s opposition National Liberation Front fire a cannon during fighting with Syrian government forces in the northwestern Idlib province March 4.

AAREF WATAD/AFP via Getty Images

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, thank supporters at the Likud party campaign headquarters in Tel Aviv early March 3 after polls officially closed. Netanyahu claimed “a giant victory,” boasting that his right-wing Likud party had defied “all expectations” in the country’s third vote in less than a year.

Amir Levy/Getty Images

Laura Cercone of Cookeville, Tennessee, takes a break from cleaning her friend’s home on March 4 following a tornado that passed through Tennessee earlier in the week, killing two dozen people.

Brett Carlsen/Getty Images

Coronavirus patients in Wuhan, China, line up at Wuhan No. 5 Hospital on March 3 as they wait to be transferred to Leishenshan Hospital, one of two new field hospitals built in under two weeks specifically for those infected by the virus.

STR/AFP via Getty Images

Palestinians put out a fire that broke out in a market in the refugee camp of Nuseirat in central Gaza Strip on March 5.

MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images

Migrants light a fire on the banks of the Tunca River in Edirne, Turkey, after an attempt to enter Europe at the Turkey-Greece border on March 5. Migrants and refugees hoping to enter Greece from Turkey fanned out across the border, maintaining pressure after Ankara declared its borders with the European Union open.

OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images

Britain’s Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, arrive at the Endeavour Fund Awards at Mansion House in London on March 5. Their official appearance at the awards ceremony to honor injured service personnel was their first since announcing their decision to step down as senior members of the royal family.

JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images

PreviousNextClose

A Week in World Photos

Refugees at the border with Europe, the Taliban’s continued assault in Afghanistan, and coronavirus fears around the world.